Where does “giữ nguyên” come from?

giữ nguyên (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Nguyên, from Chinese Mandarin 元, from Chinese Mandarin 圓.

giữ nguyên (Vietnamese): to preserve; to keep intact; to keep things the way they were

Definitions

  1. to preserve; to keep intact; to keep things the way they were

Ancestry of “giữ nguyên”, step by step

giữ nguyên traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Nguyên

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseNguyênYuan, a Mongolian dynasty
2Chinese Mandarin元—
3Chinese Mandarin圓—

via Vietnamese giữ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesegiữto keep, to hold and maintain as one's own; to...
2Proto-Vietick-cɨh—
Every word from Chinese Mandarin 圓 →Every word from Chinese Mandarin 元 →Every word from Vietnamese Nguyên →